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Do you want Pogba for £100 million?


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Erm no it's not. It's their job to pass along what they know, that's all. This is not some paid service where you sit on your arse and get spoonfed incontrovertible facts so you can feel good about the latest transfer. You do have to exert a little effort of correlating what all the journos are saying and then make an informed decision based on all the available information.

But when they don't know anything they try to pass along information too so as to appear as relevant, it happens constantly and it leads to a situation where there are very few genuinely reliable journalists on transfers. I appreciate there are a lot of moving pieces with transfers, especially ones of this scale but only a few journalists are actually worth following.
 
Still not in the top ten threads on the caf though:

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Posts and views per day ratios must be high mind. Will have been a serious traffic earner.
 
:rolleyes:

Yes, thanks for the education, but what the latest reports say the entire fee (including Raiola fee) is 110m euros, which is approx £92m, you Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anitaime

The tweets I have been reading say €110m to Juve and United paying Raiolas 20% cut, so we are paying more than €110m and Juve are getting a world record transfer fee.
 
So, basically, today we got the same update that we have been getting for over a week: negotiations are still on-going.
Right?
 
It's been said before, but even if we got all the profits from Pogba shirt sales, that would be a tiny drop in the bucket of what he brings commercially to United. He comes to United, he becomes the new face of the club. Rooney's career is winding down, Zlatan is only here for another year. Rashford and Martial seem pretty quiet. United need someone that sponsors will be excited about having their face all over their product. He will attract new sponsors, as well as increase the renewal fees for current sponsors.

He is also one that is starting to get in with celebrities and superstar US athletes, and I see this to continue and grow, especially with the publicity that he'll get over being the most expensive footballer ever. Adidas will likely also get him to events in future off-seasons with other stars of theirs, have them all start hanging out, following each other on social media, etc. All of that raises the profile of Pogba and United. He can also become the first football/soccer player to really appeal to the urban youth in the US. He's already considered one of the most marketable athletes in the world, and when you add in United's marketing pull, the commercial possibilities are endless.

Make no mistake, as much as we want a great midfielder like Scholes on the field, we wouldn't be splashing 100m on him if he was like Scholes off the field (i.e., quiet, reserved, almost a homebody, etc.--all things that we loved about Scholes, but not things that marketing people in modern football would have loved).

This.
Great post Mr. Miamispartan. Do you live in Miami?
 
No wonder MR was pushing Pogba out from United,Juve getting player for free in return they agreed to give 20% of next transfer to him. Maybe i am wrong tho.
 
Di Marzio saying 110 m euros gross? Where is the 145m euro tancredi was talking about? :lol:

110m base + 10m addons + Riaola fee = 145m. More likely 100m though, given it should 110 WITH addons it seems, but we'll see on that part.
 
To be fair, I am. Sorry about that remark. It's just arrogant posts irk me when even the season has not started. Names on paper doesn't make great teams. There is difference between a good squad and a great team, have to work for that.
That's fair mate - you're a good poster, hope you stick around. Juve currently have a fantastic side.
 
Well, it seems that this is done. Congratulations guys, enjoy your galáctico :). Probably United will keep the transfer record for a while.
Now with Mourinho, Ibra and Pogba the team has much more character.
 
The idiots over at that Juve forum think they have a chance to get Veratti. How fecking delusional can you get, RAWK levels :lol:
 
Well, it seems that this is done. Congratulations guys, enjoy your galáctico :). Probably United will keep the transfer record for a while.
Now with Mourinho, Ibra and Pogba the team has much more character.

He's on his knees!!!!! Bow down mohahah

Just joking, thanks mate!
 
The idiots over at that Juve forum think they have a chance to get Veratti. How fecking delusional can you get, RAWK levels :lol:
They wont think we will be in the cl anytime soon nor will we be pl winners soon.

Too much dodgy pasta sauce has ruined them
 
No wonder MR was pushing Pogba out from United,Juve getting player for free in return they agreed to give 20% of next transfer to him. Maybe i am wrong tho.
Raiola doesn't push players to go to other teams. He just finds good offers for them (be it financially rewarding, football offers or both) and let the players choose what they want. It is the reason why so many high profile players get him as manager, despite that he doesn't make third party deals like Mendez.

He also is prepared to take the blame from clubs instead of his players.
 
Just checked familliar faces for our Pogba

Remaining first team players from the 2011-2012 squad

De Gea, Jones, Rooney, Smalling, Carrick, Young, Valencia


2011 Youth cup teammates
Johnstone, Lingard, W.Keane, Januzaj, Blackett

Rashford apparently trained with Pogba when he was 10
http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/19/warre...with-paul-pogba-at-manchester-united-5893037/

France National Team
Martial, Schneiderlin

He shared the same agent as Ibra and allegedly their families gathered to have a meal

Him and Memphis hung out during their holidays

Blind, Tuanxebe and Fosu-Mensah liked his video on IG(most probably doesn't mean anything) :lol:

Did I miss someone?
 
Is it wrong that I spend more time on Juventuz forum than on the Caf these days? The meltdown over there is a sight to behold :lol:

One thing I wanted almost as much as seeing the Pogba deal go through was seeing the meltdown on that forum after the few weeks of smugness they went through.
 
The idiots over at that Juve forum think they have a chance to get Veratti. How fecking delusional can you get, RAWK levels :lol:
The only way they were going to get him was by swapping him with Pogba. I was sure that the switch was going to happen with Paul being basically the new Zidane and Veratti the new Pirlo.

Now, I cannot see Veratti leaving PSG considering that they don't need money.
 
I am already learning the dab stuff. Against Bournemouth, i will have my shirt on with the #Pogba6 and waiting for him to score a goal and do the celebrations with him and Lingard on the bench :drool:
 
The idiots over at that Juve forum think they have a chance to get Veratti. How fecking delusional can you get, RAWK levels :lol:
Can we have a bit of dignity with this? Why stoop to their levels?

Let's enjoy rather than look for Juve fans to mock.
 
How can anyone resist though? They've been slating United all through this, trying to take the piss. It's time for revenge, as soon as its announced. Plus they've just paid €94m for a guy that looks like he should be working in a local kebab shop.
Obviously your choice fella. I'd like to hold Redcafe to a higher standard than Juventuz.
 
No wonder MR was pushing Pogba out from United,Juve getting player for free in return they agreed to give 20% of next transfer to him. Maybe i am wrong tho.
In hindsight, it was 100% undoubtedly the right move for his client. At the end of the day, that's his job and he couldn't have done it better. Regarding the 20%, I somehow think that if that really was a stumbling block (i.e. the transfer his player wanted wouldn't have gone through as a result), he would've waived it.
 

The 110m fee is the "official" transfer fee, completely ignoring Rioala's fee out of this which is a separate entity. So as I said, depending on whether the deal is 100+10 or 110+10 whatever, the Rioala fee on top is what brought the total cost to United to 145m for whoever, though it's probably more in the 130's.....but then throw in a signing on bonus, then it is probably 145.